While technology is often framed as a great equalizer, access to it remains deeply uneven. The gap is not just about who has Wi-Fi or a laptop. It is about who can fully participate in modern civic, economic, and social life. That is where libraries quietly, but powerfully, step in.
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Are you tired up of travelling across the country to various sites for data collection? Imagine having thousands of eager, geographically distributed volunteers ready to contribute to your research project, and what if these volunteers are people who are already engaged learners, information seekers, and capable of following standard data collection protocols. This resource exists right now in every university library across Sri Lanka.
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The article argues that skilled AI prompting and academic libraries can work together to widen access to scholarly knowledge. As open access grows, AI can explain and synthesize openly available research for broader audiences. But paywalls still limit what AI can analyze, creating visibility gaps between open and closed scholarship. Libraries help address this by improving institutional repositories, supporting OA publishing through transformative agreements, teaching AI literacy, and developing ethical guidelines. Combined, these efforts make research more accessible, understandable, and useful worldwide.
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